...end, and the Presidency to Giscard d’Estaing; in Argentina, the veteran President Juan Peron was succeeded by his second wife, Isabel; in West Germany, the resignation of Willy Brandt over...
...to be enlisted was considered a Conscientious Objector. Others had political objections to the war as they did not consider the government of Germany to be their enemy. Some had...
...in November 1762. He died at Spa in Germany in October 1764. An inveterate builder of political bridges, his career illustrates the importance of connection and tact for political success....
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...Secretary of State for War was the public face of the British war effort against Germany (literally through his famous poster – ‘Your Country Needs You’). In 1926 a memorial...
...the back of their campervan and drove him across the Channel to an East German border checkpoint. His KGB controller, Sergei Kondrashev, then arranged Blake’s onward journey to Moscow. Codenamed...
...his plane to be painted red. From that point on, his fame in Germany, and notoriety amongst the French and British, only increased. The British formed, what he referred to...
...expanded into new areas of work, the biggest relating to the economic blockade of Germany. This developed in February 1916 into the Ministry of Blockade, nominally under the control of...
...nuclear test ban and initiating disarmament talks, plus increasing the pressure on the West over the status of Berlin and a divided Germany, kept the US Government headed by President...
...he entered Downing Street he was already an experienced consumer of intelligence. In wartime, he had access to decrypts of Germany’s Enigma (ULTRA) and had become embroiled in the heated...